Oral history interview with Leonard Bock, 1997 August 07.

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Oral history interview with Leonard Bock, 1997 August 07.

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Interview with Leonard Bock, a Navy veteran (PC-1135 and PC-1128), concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment and recruit training at Bainbridge Naval Receiving Center, 1942-43; electrician's school, Newport, Rhode Island, 1943; assignment to PC-1135; convoy duty to Aruba; Marshall Islands Campaign, 1944; sinking of a Japanese submarine off Wotje Island; Marianas Campaign, 1944; witnessing mass suicides by Japanese civilians jumping off cliffs at Saipan; transfer to PC-1128; Okinawa Campaign, 1945, and kamikaze attacks; sinking of PC-1128 and his survival during a typhoon, October, 1945; assignment to an APA and participation in the Bikini atom bomb tests, 1946; postwar adjustment to civilian life. Appendix includes a copy of a newspaper article.

141, [2] leaves : facsims. ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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